ELECTION LAWS 


OF THE STATE 
OF CONNECTICUT 

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PASSED AT THE SPECIAL 
SESSION OF THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 14 
AND SEPTEMBER 21, 1920 



HARTFORD, 1920 


Printed by order of 
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 

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ASSISTANT REGISTRARS, appointment and 

compensation of . 23 

BALLOT BOXES, additional and election offi¬ 
cials, provided for . 9 

BRIDGEPORT, city of, Sessions of Registrars 

in, to perfect lists . 24 

CLERKS OF COURT, to certify as to convicts 19 

CONVICTS, certification of . 19 

ELECTIONS, expenses of, towns authorized to 

borrow money for . 20 

ELECTORS, admission of, meetings for . 6-8 

ELECTORS, applications for, what to contain 21 

ELECTORS, qualification of . 14 

HARTFORD, City of, Sessions of Registrars in 

to perfect lists. 24 

LISTS, corrected, to be deposited with town 

clerks . 15 

LISTS of “ to be made,” completion of .17-19 

MEETINGS, for admission of voters, town elec¬ 
tions, even years . 27 

MEETINGS, for admission of voters, town elec¬ 
tions, odd years . 26 

MERIDEN, city of, Sessions of Registrars in, 

to perfect lists. 24 

NEW BRITAIN, city of, Sessions of Registrars 

in, to perfect lists . 24 

NEW HAVEN, city of, Sessions of Registrars 

in, to perfect lists . 24 

NOMINATIONS, making of by parties, cau- 


NOTICE of meetings to admit electors. 8 

NOTICE, registrars to give as to perfecting lists 24 
ORANGE, town of, Sessions of Registrars, in 
to perfect lists . 25 


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POLLS, hours of opening and closing, special 

meetings of towns may determine . 6 

POLLS, state and national elections, hours of 

opening and closing. 13 

REGISTRARS’ ASSISTANTS, appointment 

and compensation of . 23 

REGISTRARS, sessions of to perfect lists and 

revise ..24-26 

REGISTRARS, to give notice as to perfecting 

of lists of “ to be made ” . 24 

REGISTRATION, who may be registered .... 16 

REPEAL of certain statutes . 9 

SECRETARY OF STATE, return of nomina¬ 
tions to . 11 

SUFFRAGE, extension of, to women. 5 

TOWN CLERK and selectmen, meetings to ad¬ 
mit electors, validating . 10 

TOWN CLERK, to hold meeting for qualifying 

electors . 7 

TOWN CLERKS, lists as corrected to be de¬ 
posited with . 15 

TOWN MEETINGS, special, may determine 
hours of opening and closing polls at town 

elections . 6 

VALIDATING, certain meetings to admit elec¬ 
tors . 10 

WATERBURY, admission of electors in . 22 

WATERBURY, city of, Sessions of Registrars 

in to perfect lists . 24 

WOMEN, extending suffrage to . 5 

WOMEN, made electors for special questions, 
electors generally . 21 

WOMEN, voters, separate lists of may be pro¬ 
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CHAPTER i. 

An Act extending the Suffrage to Women. 

Section i. All electoral privileges extended 
to males by authority of the provisions of the 
general statutes are extended to females. The 
provisions of the statute relating to the for¬ 
feiture of such privileges applicable to males 
shall be applicable to females. The provisions 
of said statutes and of this act relating to the 
admission of electors and to their participation 
in primaries, caucuses, conventions and elec¬ 
tions and to the casting and counting of ballots, 
having reference to males shall be construed 
to include females. Proof of citizenship shall 
be required of all women, and admission to 
the privileges hereby conferred shall be other¬ 
wise upon the same conditions as are imposed 
upon males. All applications of women to 
have their names placed upon the list “ to be 
made ” prior to the date of the passage of 
this act shall be construed to have been made 
for the electoral privileges conferred by the 
provisions hereof. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

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CHAPTER 2. 

An Act concerning Special Town Meetings. 

Section i. Special town meetings may be 
called in any town upon three days’ notice, to 
take action fixing the time for warning, open¬ 
ing and holding annual town meetings, or 
electors’ meetings to be held in October, 1920, 
provided no such special meeting shall fix an 
hour earlier than five o’clock in the forenoon, 
for opening nor later than four o’clock in the 
afternoon, for closing the ballot boxes for all 
officers to be balloted for at any of said meet¬ 
ings; and three days’ notice of such annual 
town meeting or electors’ meeting shall be 
sufficient. 

Sec. 2. This act shall be in effect during 
the year 1920. 

Sec 3. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 3. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Meet¬ 
ings for Admission of Electors. 

Section 1. Section 564 of the general stat¬ 
utes as amended by Chapter 42 of the Public 
Acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: 


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The selectmen and town clerk of every town, 
except as otherwise specially provided by law, 
shall hold a session to examine the qualifica¬ 
tions of electors and admit to the elector’s 
oath those who shall be found qualified on the 
ninth day of October, 1920, from eight o’clock 
in the forenoon until nine o’clock in the after¬ 
noon in towns having a population of 10,000 
or more according to the census of 1920; and 
from nine o’clock in the forenoon until five 
o’clock in the afternoon in all other towns, and 
may publicly adjourn said meeting from time 
to time if necessary until October 19, and 
unless all who are entered on the first list as 
“ to be made ” whose rights shall appear to 
have matured shall have been admitted or re¬ 
jected by the selectmen and town clerk of any 
town before the 19th day of October, they 
shall be in session on said day for said purpose 
from eight o’clock in the forenoon until nine 
o’clock in the afternoon in towns having a 
population of 10,000 or more; and from nine 
o’clock in the forenoon until five o’clock in 
the afternoon in all other towns and not at any 
time after nine o’clock in said towns having a 
population of 10,000 or more or after five 
o’clock in any other towns; and if it appears 
that the rights of any person on the first list 
under the title “ to be made ” will mature 
after said 19th day of October and on or be- 


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fore the day of said electors’ meeting, they 
shall meet on the day before said electors’ 
meeting from nine o’clock in the forenoon 
until five o’clock in the afternoon, and not 
afterwards, for the purpose of admitting such 
persons and for no other purpose. They shall 
not have power to admit to the elector’s oath 
on said day before the electors’ meeting any 
applicant whose qualification of age or resi¬ 
dence matured on or before said 19th day of 
October or who might have been naturalized 
on or before said day. The registrar shall 
write the names of those electors admitted on 
said day 011 the proper list, with their resi¬ 
dence by street and number, if any, before 
twelve o’clock in the evening of said day be¬ 
fore the electors' meeting. The selectmen and 
town clerk shall give notice of the time and 
places of their meetings by publication in a 
newspaper published in their town, if any, 
and by posting the same on the sign-po'st of 
said town at least three days before such meet¬ 
ing, but they shall not be in session in any 
town for the purpose of admitting electors ex¬ 
cept upon the days prescribed by law, and they 
shall not sit as a board for admission of elec¬ 
tors after the time hereinbefore stated. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 


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CHAPTER 4. 

An Act repealing certain Statutes. 

Section 1. Sections 256, 560, 573, 574 and 
575 of the general statutes are repealed. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 5. 

An Act concerning Additional Ballot Boxes 
and Election Officials. 

Section 1. The selectmen of each town 
may provide for the electors’ meeting to be 
held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of 
November, 1920, such additional ballot boxes 
and stub ‘boxes as in the opinion of the 
re*gistrars of voters of such town may be 
necessary to accommodate the voters of such 
town at said meeting; and said registrars may 
appoint such additional booth tenders, chal¬ 
lengers, ballot clerks, checkers and box tenders 
as may be necessary. 

Sec. 2. The registrars of voters of each 
town in which additional boxes are provided 
shall designate which voters shall cast their 
ballots in each box, provided such designation 
shall not be based upon the sex of the voter. 


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Sec. 3. The registrars of voters may print 
separate voting lists of men and women elec¬ 
tors, provided there shall be no discrimination 
in the designation of ballot boxes or voting 
machines based upon the sex of the voter. 

Sec. 4. Women’s “ to be made ” lists may 
be printed separately. 

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 


CHAPTER 6. 

An Act validating certain Acts. 

Section 1. The admission of all electors in 
any town during the month of September, 
1920, which was valid in all respects except 
that such admission was on a day other than 
that provided by law is hereby validated and 
confirmed, and the action of the selectmen 
and town clerk in any town in holding a 
session for the admission of electors on Sep¬ 
tember 25, 1920, is hereby validated and con¬ 
firmed in all respects as though said meeting 
had been warned and held according to law. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 


CHAPTER 7. 

An Act amending an Act concerning 
Nominations. 

Section 1. Section 582 of the general 
statutes as amended by chapter 5 of the public 
acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: 
All parties or organizations of electors nomi¬ 
nating candidates for any office who are to be 
voted for by such ballots shall make such 
nominations at least three weeks prior to the 
date of the election at which such candidates 
are to be voted for, and whenever any party 
or political organization shall hold any con¬ 
vention for the nomination of candidates for 
office whose names are to appear upon the 
ballots authorized by chapter 35 of the gen¬ 
eral statutes, except such conventions as are 
held for the nomination of town, city or bor¬ 
ough officers, or justices of the peace, the 
secretary of such convention or organization 
shall prepare an accurate list of the candidates 
nominated by such body, which list shall be 
certified by the chairman or presiding officer 
of such convention or organization, and the 
same shall be delivered to the secretary of the 
state by the chairman or secretary of such 
body not less than eighteen days prior to the 
time fixed by law for holding the election at 


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which the candidates nominated at such con¬ 
vention are to be voted for. Whenever any 
caucus, convention or meeting is held by the 
electors of any party or political organization 
for the nomination of town, city or borough 
officers, or justices of the peace, the secretary 
of such caucus, convention or meeting shall 
prepare an accurate list, printed or type¬ 
written, of the nominations made at such 
caucus, convention or meeting, which list shall 
be certified to by the presiding officer of such 
caucus, convention or meeting, and delivered 
to the clerk of the town, city or borough, as 
the case may be, for which such nominations 
are made, who shall verify and correct the 
names of candidates appearing in such list in 
accordance with the voting list of such town, 
city or borough, indorse the same as having 
been so verified and corrected, and shall, at 
least eighteen days before the time for holding 
the election at which the nominees named at 
such convention are to be voted for, transmit 
the same to the secretary of the state; pro¬ 
vided, in any town, city or borough having a 
charter any provision of which fixes the time 
for holding such convention or meeting for the 
nomination of town, city or borough officers 
at less than eighteen days, such convention 
or meeting shall be held and the names of the 
nominees transmitted as herein provided not 


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less than ten days before the time for holding 
such election. At the time that such certified 
list of nominees is transmitted by the town, 
city or borough clerk, as the case may be, to 
the secretary of the state, such town, city or 
borough clerk shall transmit an order for a 
number of ballots to be used at such election 
which shall equal the number of names upon 
the registry list last perfected preceding the 
date of such order, plus twenty per centum 
of all names thereon ; provided, for town meet¬ 
ings and electors’ meetings to be held in 1920 
such clerk shall transmit an order for a num¬ 
ber of ballots which shall equal double the 
number of names upon the registry list last 
perfected prior to September 1, 1920, plus ten 
per centum of such doubled number. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 8. 

An Act concerning the Time during which 
the Polls shall remain open. 

Section 1. At any electors’ meeting at which 
candidates for national or state offices are to 
be balloted for the polls shall remain open 
from five-thirty o’clock in the forenoon until 
six o’clock in the afternoon, for the reception 


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of ballots; provided, in the town of Windham 
the selectmen may designate an hour for open¬ 
ing not earlier than five-thirty o’clock in the 
forenoon and an hour not later than eight 
o’clock in the afternoon for closing said polls. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 9. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Who 
may be admitted Electors. 

Section 1. Section 535 of the general 
statutes is amended to read as follows: Every 
citizen of the United States who shall have 
attained the age of twenty-one years, who 
shall have resided in the United States for a 
term of five years next preceding, in this state 
for a term of one year next preceding, and in 
the town in which he may offer himself to be 
admitted to the privileges of an elector at 
least six months next preceding the time he 
may so offer himself, and who at the time of 
offering himself shall be able to read in the 
English language any article of the constitu¬ 
tion or any section of the statutes of the state, 
and shall sustain a good moral character, shall, 
on taking the oath prescribed by law, be an 



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elector. Any new or additional qualification 
herein imposed shall not be required of any 
person who has heretofore been admitted to 
the privilege of an elector in this state. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 10. 

An Act amending an Act concerning 

Corrected List in Town Clerk’s Office. 

Section 1. Section 555 of the general stat¬ 
utes as amended by chapter sixty-six of the 
public acts of 1919 is amended to read as 
follows: Said registrars shall, on or before 
the second Monday preceding said electors’ 
meeting, deposit in the town clerk’s office the 
corrected list arranged as provided by chapter 
thirty-four of the general statutes, and certi¬ 
fied by them to be correct, and shall retain a 
sufficient number of copies to be used by them 
at said meeting, for the purpose of checking 
the names of those who vote. They shall place 
on said corrected list, in the order provided in 
section 548 of the general statutes, those elec¬ 
tors who have been admitted by the board for 
the admission of electors and, under the title 
“ to be made ” those only on the first list whose 


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qualifications of age or residence, either for 
admission or naturalization, appear not to have 
matured at the last session of said board. 
Said list deposited in the town clerk s office 
shall be carefully preserved m said office, tor 
public inspection, and any elector may make 

copies thereof. „ . 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 

passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 11. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Who 
may be Registered. 

Section 1. Section 543 of the general 
statutes is amended to read as follows: Every 
person who will have resided in this state one 
year and in the town six months next preced¬ 
ing an elector's meeting, and who has been 
admitted or previously registered as an elector 
in such town, including those admitted under 
the provisions of sections 573, 574 an d 575 
the general statutes, shall, unless he has for¬ 
feited the privileges of an elector by conviction 
of crime, be entitled to be registered, and after 
such registration to vote therein. But no 
person shall be deemed to have lost his resi¬ 
dence in any town by reason of his absence 


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therefrom in the service of this state or of the 
United States; provided, this section shall not 
be construed to exclude from registration any 
person on the ground that he cannot read who 
was duly admitted an elector of this state* 
before October, 1855. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 12. 

An Act concerning Electors. 

Section 1. Section 545 of the general stat¬ 
utes as amended by chapter 22 of the public 
acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: 
The registrars of every town, unless otherwise 
specially provided by law, shall, at least twenty- 
six days before the electors’ meetings to be 
held on the Tuesday after the first Monday 
of November, 1920, and biennially thereafter, 
complete a correct list of all electors in their 
town, or the voting districts therein, who shall 
be entitled to vote in such town or voting dis¬ 
tricts, at such meetings, and shall place on such 
list under the title “ to be made ” the names 
of those persons by whom or in whose behalf 
the claim is made to either registrar, in the 
manner hereinafter provided, that they will be 
entitled to be made electors in such town on 



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or before the day of such meeting. The resi¬ 
dence of such person shall be written on said 
list opposite his name and sufficiently described 
for identification, giving the street and num¬ 
ber, if any; and the name of no person shall 
be placed on any list under the title “ to be 
made ” after five o’clock in the afternoon of 
the Tuesday following the first Monday in 
October; nor shall the name of any person 
be registered except in the town or district 
wherein he resides. In towns having less than 
five thousand inhabitants the claim for regis¬ 
tration under the title “ to be made ” may be 
made either orally or in writing. In towns 
having more than five thousand inhabitants 
no person shall be registered under the title 
“ to be made ” unless he, or some elector re¬ 
siding in such town in his behalf, shall make 
written application to the registrars, stating his 
name, his residence in that town by street and 
number, if any, otherwise by school districts, 
the date when he became a resident of this 
state, the date when he became a resident of 
the town, and if the applicant was not born a 
citizen of the United States, the date when he 
became a resident thereof, and that he has 
attained the age of twenty-one years. Either 
of the registrars may take copies of the ap¬ 
plication, and they shall preserve the original 


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for use before the board of selectmen and town 
clerk when sitting for the admission of elec¬ 
tors. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 13. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Certifi¬ 
cation of Names of Convicts to Select¬ 
men. 

Section 1. Section 552 of the general stat¬ 
utes is amended to read as follows: The clerk 
of every court of this state having criminal 
jurisdiction shall annually, between the tenth 
and twentieth days of October, make a list of 
all persons, who, during the year preceding 
said tenth day of October, have been convicted 
in said court of any crime for which the privi¬ 
leges of an elector are forfeited, and shall 
annually furnish, before the twenty-first day of 
October, to the selectmen of the towns in 
which such convicted persons resided at the 
time of their conviction, a list of their names, 
with the date of their conviction and the crimes 
which such persons have been convicted, and 
the selectmen and registrars of such towns 
shall compare the same with the lists of voters 


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then upon their registry lists, and, after due 
notice to the persons named shall erase such 
names from the registry lists in their respective 
towns or voting districts; and any person who 
shall procure himself or another to be regis¬ 
tered after having been disfranchised by con¬ 
viction of crime, and any person who shall vote 
at any electors’ meeting after having forfeited 
his privileges by conviction of crime, shall be 
fined not more than five hundred dollars and 
imprisoned not more than one year in the 
county jail. The provisions of this section 
shall not apply in the case of persons whose 
forfeited electoral privileges have been re¬ 
stored by the general assembly. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 14. 

An Act authorizing Towns to borrow 
Money for Elections. 

Section 1. The selectmen of any town, the 
mayor and common council of any city and 
the warden and burgesses of any borough may 
borrow such sums of money as may be neces¬ 
sary to provide proper machinery and facilities 
for voting at town meetings and electors’ 


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meetings to be held in 1920 and may give 
notes therefor. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 15. 

An Act concerning Women Voters. 

Section 1. Any woman who prior to the 
passage of this act shall have qualified as a 
voter under the provisions of section 573 of 
the general statutes, shall, if otherwise quali¬ 
fied, as to residence, be entitled to vote at any 
town or electors’ meeting in the town in which 
she resides; and the registrars of voters shall 
add the names of such women to the voting 
list. 

Sec. 2. Section 573 of the general statutes 
is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 16. 

An Act concerning Record of Applicants. 

Section 1. Section 551 of the general stat¬ 
utes is amended to read as follows: The reg- 


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istrars of voters shall keep in permanent form 
a record of all persons who shall apply at any 
session of the selectmen and town clerk for 
admission as voters, showing the name, resi¬ 
dence, occupation, place of birth, and that the 
applicant has attained the age of twenty-one 
years. Any woman who shall have married 
subsequent to her admission as an elector may 
vote in the name appearing on the list prior to 
the date of said marriage upon satisfactory 
proof to the moderator as to her identity and 
the registrars of voters shall correct the voting 
list and record to conform to the provisions of 
this section, and the record required by this 
section shall be filed in the office of the town 
clerk. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 17. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Admis¬ 
sion of Electors in Waterbury. 

Section 1. Section 570 of the general stat¬ 
utes is amended to read as follows: The 
selectmen and town clerk of the town of 
Waterbury shall hold sessions to examine the 
qualifications of electors and admit to the 


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elector’s oath those who shall be found quali¬ 
fied, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 
nine o’clock in the forenoon until eight o’clock 
in the afternoon, on the third week before the 
biennial town meeting of said town; and said 
selectmen and town clerk shall hold a meeting 
for said purpose from eight o’clock in the 
forenoon until nine o’clock in the afternoon 
on the ninth day of October, 1920, and may 
adjourn the same from day to day, for the 
same hours, until October 19, 1920, inclusive. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 18. 

An Act amending an Act concerning Assist¬ 
ant Registrars of Voters. 

Section 1. Section 541 of the general stat¬ 
utes is amended to read as follows: Each 
registrar in any town may from time to time 
appoint and employ one or more assistants 
who shall assist the registrars in the perform¬ 
ance of their duties as required by chapters 
34 and 35 of the general statutes as amended, 
on election day and the thirty-five days pre¬ 
ceding. The selectmen of the several towns 
may employ such clerical assistance as they 
may deem necessary in the performance of 
their duties in admitting electors in the year 


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1920 for the town meetings and electors’ 
meetings. The provisions of this section shall 
apply to any town, city or borough, any char¬ 
ter provision or by-law to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

CHAPTER 19. 

An Act concerning the Sessions of Regis¬ 
trars to perfect and revise Lists. 

Section 1. Section 548 of the general stat¬ 
utes as amended by chapter 53 of the public 
acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: 
Said registrars shall be in session for the pur¬ 
pose of perfecting such list on the Tuesday 
after the first Monday of October, 1920, con¬ 
tinuously from nine o’clock in the forenoon 
until live o’clock in the afternoon at some suit¬ 
able place in their respective districts or towns, 
of which notice shall be given by publication in 
the newspaper, if any is published in said town, 
or by posting on a sign-post therein, at least 
five days before said session. In the cities of 
Hartford, New Haven, New Britain, Bridge¬ 
port and Meriden, and in the town, city and 
center school district of Waterbury, and in the 


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town of Orange the registrar shall enter the 
names on the official lists by the street and 
number of the house, when the houses are 
numbered, and not alphabetically, so that there 
shall be entered on the list first the street, 
avenue, road or alley; second, the number of 
the house or residence in numerical order; and 
third, the resident electors in such house or 
residence in alphabetical order, and those elec¬ 
tors, if any, who cannot be so registered shall 
be registered alphabetically. Except in said 
cities, districts and towns the names on said 
lists shall be arranged alphabetically. Said 
lists shall be completed, certified to by said 
registrars and deposited in the town clerk’s 
office at least twenty-six days before the elec¬ 
tors’ meeting, for public inspection; a certified 
copy of the list for each district, where there 
are voting districts, shall on the same day be 
posted by them at the place in such district 
where the registrars meet, and in towns where 
there are no voting districts a copy of said list 
shall be posted in such places as may have been 
designated in a town meeting. Each registrar 
shall keep a copy of said list for his use in 
revision. Said registrars shall give notice in 
said lists of the times and places at which they 
will hold one or more sessions within the next 
twelve days for the revision and correction 
of said lists, and shall also give notice of such 


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times and places by publication in a newspaper 
in said town or by posting the same on the 
sign-post therein at least five days before the 
first of said sessions. The number of sessions 
shall be fixed by the selectmen of each town. 

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its 
passage. 

Approved Sept. 23, 1920. 

An Act amending an Act concerning the 
Making of New Voters. 

(This act takes the place of Sec. 571 as 
printed in the 1919 pamphlet on Election and 
Naturalization Laws.) 

Section 571 of the general statutes is 
amended to read as follows: The selectmen 
and town clerk of every town, except as other¬ 
wise provided by law, shall hold a session to 
examine the qualifications of electors and ad¬ 
mit to the elector’s oath those who shall be 
found qualified on Saturday of the third week 
before the annual town meeting held in any 
town in 1919, and biennially thereafter, from 
nine o’clock in the forenoon until eight o’clock 
in the afternoon, unless all on the list “ to be 
made ” have been admitted or rejected before 
that time; notice of such meeting shall be given 
in the manner provided in section 564 of the 


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general statutes. They shall not have power 
to admit to the elector’s oath on said day any 
person whose name is not on the list “ to be 
made,” as provided in section 559 of the gen¬ 
eral statutes. The registrars shall add to the 
lists prepared for the last preceding electors’ 
meetitngs in their several towns the names of 
those persons who are admitted electors under 
the provisions of this section and sections 564 
and 569 of the general statutes, and such lists, 
with the names added as herein provided, shall 
be the registry lists which shall be used at the 
annual town meetings held in the several towns 
in the year 1919 and biennially thereafter. 
Approved March 19, 1919. 


An Act amending an Act concerning the 
Making of Voters in Towns of Less 
than Ten Thousand Inhabitants. 

(This act takes the place of Sec. 572 as 
printed in the 1919 pamphlet on Election and 
Naturalization Laws.) 

Section 572 of the general statutes is 
amended to read as. follows: The selectmen 
and town clerk of every town containing less 
than ten thousand inhabitants shall hold a ses¬ 
sion to examine the qualifications of the elec¬ 
tors and admit to the elector’s oath those who 


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shall 'be found qualified on Saturday of the 
third week before the annual town meeting 
held in any such town in the year 1920, and 
biennially thereafter, from nine o'clock in the 
forenoon until eight o’clock in the afternoon, 
unless all on the list “ to be made ” shall have 
been admitted or rejected before that time. 
Notice of such meeting shall be given in the 
manner provided in section 564 of the general 
statutes. No person whose name is not on 
the list “ to be made ” shall be admitted to the 
elector’s oath. The names of those admitted 
shall be added to and become part of the reg¬ 
istry list of such town in the same manner as 
provided in section 571 of the general statutes. 
Approved March 19, 1919. 








































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